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Welcome to HCL's new website. HCL is an international development consultancy carrying out technical assistance projects in communities across the developing world. HCL strives to go beyond project boundaries and approaches each project with vision and innovation.

Technical Assistance to the Holding Company for Water and Waste Water for Technical Studies and Strategy Development

Provision of technical assistance to the Holding Company for Water and Waste Water and Affiliated Companies to improve their technical efficiency and technical investment planning in the water sector.Read more…

Context: Support the Government of Egypt in progressing the reform programme of the water sector, in accordance with the objectives of the National Water Resource Plan 2005-2017 (NWRP 2005 – 2017) as well as the Water and Wastewater Sector Development Policy (WWSDP).

Timeline: 2015-2017.

Overall investment value: 2,394,750 EUR

Knowledge-Based Water & Wastewater Decision Support System (WWDSS) (GIZ)

Improving investment decisions to ensure wider access to water and wastewater services in Egypt.

This project is about: Development, implementation, and application of a tailored-made Water & Wastewater Decision Support System (WWDSS) for the HCWW and its Affiliated Companies. Read more…

Context: WWDSS will be developed for the HCWW and 21 ACs located in 21 governorates. It will be structured as an integratable modular system linked to and interacting with an updatable and expandable data base comprising demographic, infrastructure, unit cost, and financial data.

This project is about: Provision of high-level technical assistance at country and regional level through expert missions to increase energy access and to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions. EU funded. Read more…

Context: improve the policy and regulatory framework conditions aiming at providing attractive and enabling conditions for increased public and private investment in energy access, energy supplies, renewable energy as well as energy efficiency.

February 2018EU supports AUC in the Harmonisation of the regulatory frameworks for the Electricity Markets in Africa

A joint initiative of the European Union (EU) and the African Union Commission (AUC) is focusing on the process of integration and harmonisation of the regulatory frameworks for the electricity markets in Africa. A fully integrated, competitive and harmonised electricity market would be a strong enabler for accelerating Africa’s development and improving energy access in Africa.Read more...

Creating jobs for an empowered Africa

The TAF is studying the employment generation results of sustainable energy projects, looking to track job creation and eventually mainstream this goal into EU development projects in Africa – and beyond.Read more...

European Union meets African Union to exchange experiences

HCL’s EU TAF Team for East and Southern Africa organised a series of sessions in Brussels, bringing together the Infrastructure and Energy Department (IED) of the African Union Commission (AUC) and EU Institutions & Energy Sector Associations, in a series of technical meetings dedicated to “Exchange of Experiences”.Read more...

EU support to building an energy efficiency programme for SADC’s industrial players

A new EU-funded Energy Efficiency programme aims to boost competitiveness of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States’ industries by building their capacity to adopt, invest and use energy efficient technologies and practices- and eventually reduce energy consumption, which amounts to up to 35% of production costs.Read more...

Puntland: Scaling up use of LPG

Government involvement and control, business opportunities and profitability, and bottled LPG supply at an affordable price are the three objectives of a new LPG project in Puntland. HCL's SE4All TAF team lays out the business plan for increased access to LPG in 9 large cities within a Public Private Partnership (PPP) type of venture between the Government and private investors.Read more...